Benchmark Almanac

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash places in the top three on 4 benchmarks.

Google DeepMind Released July 21st, 2026 Family Gemini 3.6 The lab's model card Compare with others
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Benchmarks with a score
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Ranked first, out of five or more models
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In the top three
Google DeepMind Jul 2026

Gemini 3.6 Flash

Closed weights Mid-size

155.2 #44 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 156.5 #52 of 404
  • DeepSWE 46.7% #23 /28
  • AutomationBench 17.1% #21 /42
  • ZeroBench 18% #25 /76

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMArena (Elo) 1,483 #22 of 335 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 76.4 #5 of 71 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 73.9% #4 of 47 Official leaderboard
Antidote 1,083 #4 of 36 Official leaderboard
Hemingway-bench 1,075 #5 of 42 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,276 #10 of 77 Official leaderboard
MRCR v2 91.8% #4 of 30 Lab model card
SimpleQA Verified 66.2% #15 of 94 Epoch AI run
FACTS Parametric 73.3% #10 of 45 Official leaderboard
Global MMLU Lite 94.3% #10 of 43 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,255 #22 of 85 Official leaderboard
FACTS Multimodal 53.7% #6 of 23 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 89% #27 of 103 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric V2 73.9% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 72.5 #40 of 120 Official leaderboard
FACTS Benchmark Suite 67.5% #10 of 23 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 39% #65 of 129 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding v2 66.6% #13 of 25 Official leaderboard
Document Arena 1,454 #25 of 39 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 18.2% #75 of 107 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 46.3% #37 of 49 Official leaderboard
HLE Extended 13.3% #24 of 31 Official leaderboard
FACTS Search V2 68.2% #18 of 21 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 94.1% #13 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 95.5% #22 of 180 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.12 #12 of 82 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 94.2% #54 of 212 Epoch AI run
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 26% #12 of 47 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 91.2% #30 of 95 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 36% #21 of 59 Official leaderboard
MathArena Apex Shortlist 71.3% #14 of 38 Official leaderboard
AIME 2026 96.7% #12 of 31 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 60.4% #38 of 98 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 59% #43 of 86 Official leaderboard
HMMT 2026 89.4% #16 of 31 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 21.9% #46 of 68 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 65.6% #27 of 29 Official leaderboard
BioMysteryBench 58.5% #29 of 30 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DesignArena Website 1,293 #21 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,288 #17 of 118 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,291 #27 of 139 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,280 #31 of 143 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,825 #32 of 126 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,253 #37 of 136 Official leaderboard
MLE-bench 63.9% #3 of 10 Lab model card
AndroidBench 75.6% #10 of 32 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,537 #33 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
DesignArena Game Dev 1,252 #47 of 143 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 56.1% #38 of 112 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Video to Website 1,200 #7 of 19 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,193 #17 of 46 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 58.7% #31 of 81 Lab model card
Code Arena 1,538 #49 of 128 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 0.50% #10 of 25 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,192 #24 of 56 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 64% #57 of 120 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,545 #27 of 55 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,169 #37 of 74 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 30.9% #41 of 78 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Full Stack 1,159 #26 of 49 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 39.7% #36 of 65 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench tests passed 55.7% #14 of 25 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to HTML 1,203 #29 of 51 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,180 #31 of 53 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to Frontend 1,167 #19 of 31 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Game Dev 1,126 #17 of 27 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench almost solved 4.00% #16 of 25 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified Extended 33.3% #33 of 44 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 4.70% #29 of 38 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 46.7% #23 of 28 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 35.1% #39 of 45 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 23.3% #35 of 39 Epoch AI run

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GameHorizon 75.3 #4 of 37 Official leaderboard
OSWorld-Verified 83% #6 of 41 Lab model card
LLM Chess 1,094 #20 of 123 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Coin Game 440 #7 of 39 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 40.1% #10 of 44 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Chess 1,224 #11 of 42 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dark Hex 341 #11 of 41 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 5.58 #22 of 76 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Four in a Row 504 #13 of 43 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Reversi 710 #13 of 39 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 42% #36 of 93 Epoch AI run
Game Arena Poker 2.79 #12 of 31 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 30% #33 of 84 Epoch AI run
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 39% #10 of 25 Official leaderboard
Cresta-Bench 50.2% #6 of 14 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Association 288 #18 of 40 Official leaderboard
Kaggle Game Arena 327 #19 of 42 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Word Art 621 #18 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Checkers 954 #20 of 41 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 17.1% #21 of 42 Official leaderboard
DuelLab GameBench 2 63.1 #30 of 57 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 88% #17 of 32 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Clobber 290 #21 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe 269 #21 of 39 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 78% #31 of 56 Lab model card
Game Arena Nine Men's Morris 595 #22 of 39 Official leaderboard
CLASHarness 20.2% #8 of 14 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Bargaining 173 #23 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Lines of Action 350 #23 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Go 712 #25 of 39 Official leaderboard
Game Arena Dots and Boxes 789 #27 of 40 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp Extended 13.8% #34 of 42 Official leaderboard
Bench on the Clocktower 46.7% #9 of 10 Official leaderboard
GAIA 1.66% #61 of 64 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LegalBench 86.7% #12 of 138 Official leaderboard
MedCode 53.1% #11 of 96 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 57.4% #9 of 72 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 74.9% #28 of 129 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 56.3% #20 of 80 Official leaderboard
MortgageTax 67.6% #22 of 87 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 65.4% #25 of 76 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 66% #24 of 71 Official leaderboard
CorpFin v2 63.3% #46 of 119 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 55.4% #28 of 65 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 0.90% #23 of 43 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 3.33% #43 of 80 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 82.6% #28 of 50 Official leaderboard
MedXpertQA MM Extended 54.2% #23 of 41 Official leaderboard
DesignArena PDF 1,178 #21 of 37 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 79.7% #57 of 97 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 1.1 63.4% #39 of 65 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,421 #17 of 27 Lab model card
YC-Bench $968,123 #38 of 59 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 46.3% #11 of 17 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 46.9% #40 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
DesignArena Spreadsheet 1,093 #24 of 35 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 39.5% #35 of 51 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 18% #59 of 84 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 25% #67 of 93 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 22% #24 of 32 Official leaderboard
DesignArena HTML Slides 1,044 #21 of 28 Official leaderboard
CommerceAgentBench 46.7% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,092 #28 of 36 Official leaderboard
EEBench 37.4% #24 of 30 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 56.6% #41 of 50 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 52.5% #41 of 49 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro V2 12.2% #7 of 7 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CharXiv 89.4% #9 of 75 Lab model card
Vision Arena 1,280 #23 of 136 Official leaderboard
1H-VideoQA 82.2% #4 of 20 Official leaderboard
RoTA-Bench 10% #2 of 8 Official leaderboard
Math Kangaroo 2025 (MathArena) 87.8% #6 of 22 Official leaderboard
Chartography 34% #12 of 43 Official leaderboard
MMAU-Pro 69.6% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
ParseBench 69.1% #14 of 44 Official leaderboard
ZeroBench 18% #25 of 76 Official leaderboard
MineBench 1,603 #31 of 75 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,785 #24 of 56 Official leaderboard
vCX Benchmark 87% #20 of 42 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 31.9% #17 of 34 Official leaderboard
Blueprint-Bench 2 31.2% #20 of 38 Official leaderboard
Progress classification (Google DeepMind) 43.9% #3 of 5 Official leaderboard
CharXiv Extended 78.4% #25 of 38 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro Extended 29% #28 of 38 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code to Video 1,106 #23 of 29 Official leaderboard
Furniture Assembly Benchmark 23.3% #31 of 35 Official leaderboard
Instrument reading (Google DeepMind) 52% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard
APM-Bench 60.2% #1 of 1 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
nocot-bench (NCRI) 101.0 #23 of 185 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 65.8% #10 of 71 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 64% #15 of 86 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 81.1% #15 of 69 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Permit 99.8% #16 of 69 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 54.3% #23 of 90 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 52.2% #24 of 74 Official leaderboard
Big Sleep Evaluation (Google) 42% #2 of 3 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 11.5 #23 of 29 Official leaderboard
CyberBench (Vals) 48.5% #21 of 26 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Health advice 68% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Urgent safety 52% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 45.4% #38 of 44 Official leaderboard
dfbench 20.9% #18 of 18 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Relationship boundaries 70% #17 of 17 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Conceptual Reasoning Index 59.5 #36 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 44.9% #43 of 147 Official leaderboard
SAGE (Vals) 48.7% #25 of 81 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 70.0 #55 of 152 Official leaderboard
Vals Multimodal Index 65.1% #13 of 33 Official leaderboard
StudentBench 12.7 #10 of 11 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 156.5, 1.2 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 6 capability results Google DeepMind reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 152.1 to 160.8. How we compute it.

Its lab's number next to a leaderboard

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
DeepSWE 49% DeepSWE v1.1 46.7% Leaderboard, high, mini-swe-agent +2.3 pts

Google DeepMind's models over time

Google DeepMind's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Carbon Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 3 Pro Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Gemini 1.5 Pro 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Gemini 4 Carbon Gemini 3.8 Flash

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 5 of them aren't in the launch post.